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Continuous papermaking machine in the Fabriano Mill. Photograph by Philip Sayer.

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Pulp 23Inspiration

A spotlight on Fabriano

Pulp 23 is a Fabriano special issue
Corporate communicationIllustrationPhotographyPrintingPublishing

Continuous papermaking machine in the Fabriano Mill. Photograph by Philip Sayer.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564).
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78).
Bridget Riley (1931) – courtesy of IDA KAR/National Portrait Gallery.

This issue throws a spotlight on Fabriano, named after the Italian town in which its mills were founded in 1264, and whose papers have been loved and used by artists ever since. Fabriano has been part of Fedrigoni for two decades and continues to make the finest papers for creative expression.

Articles in Pulp 23 include ‘Artists on paper’, which lists some of the outstanding individuals, from Michelangelo to Bridget Riley, who have painted, drawn and written on Fabriano’s papers over time. ‘Fabriano today’, profiles the company’s innovation and growth, while ‘A life in paper’ by Paolo Ferrarini examines Pentagram’s elegant rebrand of Carlo Cattaneo’s original logotype.

In ’Rebirth of a paper mill’, Chiara Medioli Fedrigoni tells the story of the Pioraco mill, before and after the 2016 earthquake, while ‘The art of the swatch’ looks at Nicola D’Arcangelo’s extraordinary swatch books for Fabriano.

The striking cover shows a detail of Giulia Orecchia’s artwork for Fabriano’s Festival del Disegno 2022, coming later this year.

Original Fabriano logo designed in 1971 by Carlo Cattaneo.
Pentagram's 2021 reinterpretation.

Pulp 23 was produced in three editions and in five languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish and German) by the award-winning, UK-based team behind Eye magazine: editor John L. Walters, art director Simon Esterson and art editor Holly Catford. This edition was printed at Veronalibri in Italy using Materica Terra Rossa, LifeEco100 White, Stucco Tintoretto Gesso, X-Per White, Freelife Kendo and Fabriano Rusticus Bianco for the cover. The postal packaging was made from Fabriano Murillo Rosso Fuoco.

There will be a launch event in London (28 July) with Esterson, Walters and guests plus a subtitled screening of Questi Poveri Stracci [These Wretched Rags], Ugo Fasano’s acclaimed Italian neorealist documentary short about papermaking at Fabriano.

Featured Materials

Materica

Pulp-coloured papers and boards made with 40% CTMP fibres, 25% pure environmentally friendly fibres, 20% recycled material and 15% cotton fibres.

Tintoretto

The uncoated natural papers in the Tintoretto range are made from pure ecological ECF cellulose, FSC™ certified, and felt-marked.

Freelife Merida

The range Freelife Merida includes felt-marked papers in different pulp-dyed colors, made with 55% pure environmentally friendly certified FSC™ fibres, 40% recycled fibres, and 5% cotton fibres.

Pulp 23 Articles

Stories 16/02/2023

Making paper

Over the centuries, the methods used to make paper by hand have hardly changed
People & PaperSustainability
Stories 02/02/2023

Fabriano today

The present-day company aims to make more and more artists worldwide familiar with Fabriano’s products
Corporate communicationInterviewsPeople & Paper
Inspiration 19/01/2023

The art of the swatch

Nicola D’Arcangelo’s extraordinary swatch books 
for Fabriano
Graphic designIllustrationPeople & PaperPrintingSustainability
Stories 05/01/2023

Pioraco. Rebirth of a paper mill

Chiara Medioli Fedrigoni tells the story of Pioraco, before and after the 2016 earthquake
People & PaperPrintingPublishingSustainability

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